Want to start a blog? Great idea! But…how do you get started? There’s so much info out there on the internet and everyone’s telling you to do different things. Whom should you listen to? Well…I think you should listen to me. Just give me a…
Communication
We all love stories, whether they are in the form of books, movies or the yarns that our mother spun for us. Stories make our lives interesting, and ones like the Harry Potter series, Lord of the Rings and Sherlock Holmes often have us wondering…
The ability to communicate effectively is one of the most important characteristics a person must have to succeed, be it to land a job or to climb the corporate ladder. Intelligence or academic prowess has little value without the ability to express your ideas in…
Writing an article like this is just asking for trouble. Already I can hear one reader asking, “Why do you need ‘just’?” Another suggesting that ‘like’ should be replaced by ‘such as’. Yet another saying, “Fancy using a cliché like ‘asking for trouble!’ “. In…
Communication is important everywhere – not only at your place of work but at home too. Miscommunication or failing to communicate something can lead to problems ranging anywhere from getting a probation warning at your job to a divorce with your spouse. Knowing how to…
An idiom is a group of words which, when used together, has a different meaning from the one which the individual words have. Idioms are used to express something that other words do not express as clearly or as cleverly. Like using a symbol or…